IT distribution revenues continued to decline
IT distributor revenue experienced a year-on-year decline of 5,5% to $17,85-billion in the first quarter of 2024, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) North America Distribution Tracker (NADT). The market continued to rebalance following pandemic...
Fibre network operators proliferate, but confidence drops
Confidence in South Africa's fibre network operators (FNOs) is slipping. This is among the findings from the FNO perception survey released by Internet industry association ISPA. The February 2024 poll measured the views of about 50 Internet service providers (ISPs)...
Altron sells off Altron People Solutions
Altron has announced the sale of its Altron People Solutions business, which was held for sale for the past year. Altron People Solutions' Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and Customer Experience Technology (CXTech) business has been acquired by iSON Xperiences, a...
Mobile PC revenues continue to exceed 2019 level
Revenue sales for notebooks and tablets continued to beat 2019 levels over the summer, with Wi-Fi 6-equipped notebooks performing particularly well. Context's Revenue Trend Index plots current performance against a value of 100 for each category, which is equivalent...
Surge in gaming PCs, monitors set to continue
According to the latest forecast from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Gaming Tracker, worldwide shipments of gaming PCs and monitors continue to grow at rates faster than their parent markets. For gaming PCs, which includes both desktop...
Covid-19, funding shortfalls devastate efforts to end TB by 2030
The Stop TB Partnership has released new data showing how the Covid-19 pandemic and dismally low levels of funding represent the main barriers to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals of ending tuberculosis (TB) by 2030. The data from 2021 shows...
Ethics reaches the top of Gartner’s privacy hype cycle
Digital ethics sits at the peak of the Gartner Hype Cycle for Privacy, 2021, as people become increasingly aware of the value of their personal information and frustrated by lack of transparency and continuing misuse. Gartner defines digital ethics as the systems of...
Big increase for global internet bandwidth
Global internet bandwidth rose by 29% in 2021, a return to "normal" over the previous year's Covid-driven surge of 34%. TeleGeography's Global Internet Geography Research Service analyzes the meaning behind internet capacity and traffic data sets, the factors...
Women still under-represented in world science
A study reporting on the inclusion and participation of women in over 120 science organisations that are co-ordinated at a global level finds that women are still under-represented. The study was coordinated by GenderInSITE (Gender in Science, Innovation, Technology...
Aspiring digital leaders need a new operating model
When we went into our first lockdown in 2020, industry analysts predicted the rapid advancement of digital transformation. What was overlooked by many was that, while we knew the old world was in crisis, the new digital world was still forming - complicating...
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Financial institutions and disaster recovery
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Making 3-D Secure work for e-tailers
3-D Secure, the security system for online credit card sales, can help to prevent fraud – and, says PayGate MD Peter Harvey, there are some simple steps merchants can take to ensure they don’t lose sales because of buyer fears. “Online retailers are very vulnerable to...
Mustek to supply new NEC projectors
Mustek, the country’s largest assembler and distributor of personal computers and complementary ICT products, has announced the availability of NEC’s latest projector range in South Africa. The NEC VE series, consisting of two models has been designed to meet the...
Teachers to drive a love of maths, science
More than 130 teachers from across South Africa and Africa will this week meet with government officials and education experts to explore ways of getting more learners interested in studying science and maths at the first Intel Educator Academy to be held on the...
Mobile transactions see R1bn in six months
Mobile transaction enabler wiGroup has facilitated in-store phone transactions worth over R1bn in 2013 – a 500% increase over 2012 - as major retailers, including Shoprite Checkers and Pick n Pay have come on line with applications like EeziCoupon and MTN Mobile...
Key 2014 contact centre trends
Hosted technology provider 1Stream has released a white paper detailing the key trends affecting the South African contact centre industry, including technology providers in the space. “The market has definitely grown dramatically over the last five years,” says Bruce...
Best practices boost BYOD security
As consumerisation continues to transform IT, organisations are moving quickly to design strategies to allow and embrace bring your own device (BYOD), says Michael Church, enterprise manager, Citrix South Africa. Empowered to choose the best device to get their work...
Open source vendors are not too small
While many companies see open source as a way of increasing IT efficiencies and greatly reducing costs, there is a pattern that is seeing them withdraw once they notice that big-name vendors are generally not involved in open source delivery. This is according to...
Quality measurement in the contact centre
Call volumes and talk time are the last metrics a contact centre should look at, when assessing quality of service, says Karl Reed, chief marketing and solutions Officer at Elingo. A decade ago, the measures of an effective contact centre included the number of calls...
POPI highlights need for cyber-risk policy
South African businesses are set to face even more legislation with the introduction of the Protection of Personal Information Bill (PoPI). The Bill has taken current restrictions to a whole new level, since it even restricts the way in which you may go about...
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